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The last poet of the regular season of Ring Ring Poetry is William Waltz, Editor in Chief of Conduit Magazine. His poem is set in Saint Paul’s Hidden Falls Regional Park, right along the Mississippi River. The poem is rife with imagery, man and animal butting up against each other, trading places and treading closely. The … Continue reading →

It is mid-October, I’m late again with my poem releases, but you should forgive me, if only long enough to phone Ring Ring Poetry and hear Ed Bok Lee’s poem, “The Schooner”. Ed’s poem is sad and funny and desperate and hopeful. It is the poem of a dive bar in Minneapolis, of its people … Continue reading →

I will invite you to listen to Heid Erdrich’s poem at (612) 223-POEM, as it’s this week’s debut poem. (You can still hear poems from Joe, Kathleen, me, and all of the 2013 poets in the Ring Ring Poetry Archives.) I’d heard Heid’s name around some before I first saw her read at Literary Death Match. … Continue reading →

Joe Horton is an emcee for internationally recognized hip-hop band No Bird Sing and a professor of Lyrical Composition at McNally Smith College of Music. He has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Hamline University. Horton is best known for his abstract, associative approach to songwriting. The poem is by Joe Horton, of No … Continue reading →

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What IS Ring Ring Poetry?

Ring Ring Poetry is a poetry installation featuring Minnesotan poets, "broadcasting" poems written for specific locations in the state.

Audiences are encouraged to go to those locations, call the Ring Ring Poetry phone number, and experience poems there within the poem's location.

Ring Ring Poetry was created and is executed by Cole Sarar. The 2014 Ring Ring Poetry Season will debut poems weekly June-August throughout Minnesota, through a generous Emerging Writers Grant hosted by The Loft and funded by the Jerome Foundation. The 2013 Ring Ring Poetry Season was funded through a VERVE spoken word grant, hosted by Intermedia Arts. In 2013, Ring Ring Poetry debuted new poems in the Twin Cities from May 2- June 28.